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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2008-02-25 07:09 pm

Prosperity Challenge: James Fisher is awesome.

I've been playing with the prosperity neighbourhood a little bit, and I just had to share one of my new favourite sims with you.





James Fisher is a nerd, and he's awesomely awesome!






Don't you just love him to bits? I certainly do! I like that he randomly transitioned into that sharp blue plaid shirt too. It really goes with his whole look. He's a family sim.

Any thoughts on Maxis lineage? Hint: he is the product of three different Maxis sims (his mother is the product of two, and the family is a direct clone), but he looks mostly like just one of them.



I still have to reply to everyone's comments on the last couple of Strangetown chapters, so my apologies about the delay. It's been pretty busy and I also just haven't been up to it. I've been picking away at them, and I will do more after work.




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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It is fun to just play the game as a game. I started with downloaded starter homes, and it left very little money at the start, so some of the households were very challenging to play.

I'm also enjoying the "make it up as you go" approach to the story for this 'hood. It's fun when things just happen.

I have to do a search for a list of all of those impossible wants.

[identity profile] madame-ugly.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still having money problems in a few of my households. I like that Ginny Gattus has to make flower arrangements and counterfeit simoleons to make ends meet.

I did do one money cheat, so I could adopt a baby into one house. The same house where I'm using dates as a money making tool. Dream date with a townie = nice gift (sold for cold hard simoleons, baby)
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Flower arranging and counterfeiting simoleons. There's a beautiful poetry in it.

I love the desperate measures and how they bring out weird character and plot ideas.

I've trying to pull the same date scam with Dick Cole, but he has been striking out a bit too much (well, those alien toddlers do suck up your time and energy), and the sims that he does well with are just cheap. Poor old Dick. But his teenaged alien daughter is working on her painting skills in an effort to save the family.

[identity profile] madame-ugly.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*snort* "poor old Dick"

(I can't wait to see your hood)
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a lot of fun playing with my dear old Dick. *snicker* (This name will amuse me forever. I'm so childish.)

I'm exited to show it off too. I finally came up with a name for "the cove" too. In the tradition of ridiculous place names in Newfoundland, and with a wink and nod to Maxis, I dub it Llama Spit Cove.

[identity profile] madame-ugly.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice.

I should have given my Prosperity a real name but it's too late now. I should have called it Fox Piss Hollow (though I call the seasons hood that, so it might be confusing).
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-02-27 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Fox Piss Hollow is a sweet name. I remember seeing you post that and I nearly snorted myself to death.

You could always have one of your characters name the town. Maybe the school is doing a contest for the kids to pick a new name for the town. They did that for my school when I was a kid.

[identity profile] madame-ugly.livejournal.com 2008-02-27 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, interesting idea.

Or it could be named after a prominent (read breederific) family.

Zmuda has a nice ring to it.